20180411

My article in Finnish: Ympäristötaiteen konservoinnin jäljillä (On the trail of Environmental Art Conservation) is available online. It’s packed with strong claims concerning public art and a rare view to Land Arts. The text features:

A detailed report of the conservation efforts of Spiral Jetty (1970)

A summary on what nonsites are (according to Robert Smithson) and how text build landscapes

A well grounded argument that land-art conservation efforts should be organised in séance-sessions

An argument that temporary events (performances, campaigns) can be used as monuments which serve neoliberal economics

An argument that The Tree Mountain 1996 by Agnes Denes does not help to protect nature (I don’t think it’s even intended to)

An argument that site-specific, land- environmental- and street art, seek to expand the dominance of institutional art thinking

An view (between the lines) that artists should consider what kind of infrastructure their artworks are depended on (more then the art they make)